Azure Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Azure
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Azure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 8 6
Rank change year-on-year +5 -2 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 719 448 781
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 11.22% 13.95% 11.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 49.86% 51.73% 44.22%
Number of salaries quoted 379 331 691
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,250 £29,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £49,000 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% -1.01% -1.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £92,000 £72,500 £73,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

All Cloud Computing Skills
East of England

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,442 866 1,766
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 22.50% 26.97% 26.39%
Number of salaries quoted 868 624 1,478
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £33,688 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £92,988 £79,000 £75,225
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Azure job vacancy trend in the East of England

Azure
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the East of England over the 6 months to 28 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the East of England region over the 6 months to 28 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Essex +2 173 £40,000 -11.11% 28
Hertfordshire 0 171 £60,000 +9.09% 67
Cambridgeshire -1 152 £53,000 +11.58% 33
Suffolk +34 102 £46,370 -7.26% 11
Norfolk +1 88 £55,000 +58.20% 21
Bedfordshire -3 31 £34,000 -35.85% 23
Azure
England

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 87 (12.10%) SharePoint
2 39 (5.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (1.81%) WordPress
4 8 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.97%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.83%) CMS
7 3 (0.42%) SAS
8 2 (0.28%) Confluence
8 2 (0.28%) Luigi
9 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 73 (10.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.83%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (1.25%) Dynamics AX
1 9 (1.25%) Dynamics GP
2 7 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.70%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.28%) Infor M3
4 2 (0.28%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.28%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 170 (23.64%) Microsoft 365
2 131 (18.22%) Power Platform
3 120 (16.69%) Azure AI
4 102 (14.19%) Entra ID
5 88 (12.24%) AWS
6 70 (9.74%) Azure DevOps
7 44 (6.12%) OneDrive
8 39 (5.42%) PowerApps
9 35 (4.87%) Power Automate
10 33 (4.59%) Azure Logic Apps
11 32 (4.45%) Azure Data Factory
12 25 (3.48%) GitHub
13 21 (2.92%) GCP
14 19 (2.64%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 19 (2.64%) SaaS
15 15 (2.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 15 (2.09%) GitHub Copilot
15 15 (2.09%) IaaS
16 14 (1.95%) Dynamics 365
17 12 (1.67%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 67 (9.32%) Firewall
2 41 (5.70%) DNS
3 40 (5.56%) VPN
4 27 (3.76%) DHCP
5 21 (2.92%) TCP/IP
6 15 (2.09%) WAN
7 14 (1.95%) Internet
8 12 (1.67%) LAN
8 12 (1.67%) VoIP
9 10 (1.39%) VLAN
9 10 (1.39%) Wireless
10 7 (0.97%) Broadband
11 6 (0.83%) Network Security
12 5 (0.70%) DMZ
12 5 (0.70%) MQTT
13 4 (0.56%) Structured Cabling
13 4 (0.56%) WLAN
14 3 (0.42%) SSL
15 2 (0.28%) L2TP
15 2 (0.28%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (16.13%) Power BI
2 101 (14.05%) Azure SQL Database
3 72 (10.01%) Tableau
4 54 (7.51%) MongoDB
5 29 (4.03%) SQL Server
6 28 (3.89%) Elasticsearch
7 13 (1.81%) Data Lake
8 11 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (0.97%) MySQL
10 6 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (0.83%) BigQuery
10 6 (0.83%) Looker
10 6 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (0.83%) Snowflake Schema
11 4 (0.56%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.42%) Metadata
12 3 (0.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (0.28%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (1.95%) Git
1 14 (1.95%) JIRA
2 6 (0.83%) MLflow
3 5 (0.70%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.28%) Selenium
4 2 (0.28%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.28%) Yeoman
5 1 (0.14%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.14%) ERwin
5 1 (0.14%) git-flow
5 1 (0.14%) JMeter
5 1 (0.14%) Postman
5 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.14%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.14%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 373 (51.88%) Social Skills
2 80 (11.13%) Finance
3 32 (4.45%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (3.06%) Law
5 18 (2.50%) Marketing
6 15 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (2.09%) Public Sector
7 14 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (1.81%) Legal
9 10 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (1.39%) Retail
10 7 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (0.83%) Advertising
11 6 (0.83%) Banking
11 6 (0.83%) Multimedia
12 4 (0.56%) Games
12 4 (0.56%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.56%) Music Industry
12 4 (0.56%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.42%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 168 (23.37%) Analyst
2 136 (18.92%) Developer
3 132 (18.36%) Junior
4 130 (18.08%) Junior Analyst
5 84 (11.68%) IT Support
6 73 (10.15%) .NET Developer
7 70 (9.74%) Security Analyst
8 66 (9.18%) Data Analyst
9 64 (8.90%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 64 (8.90%) Junior Data Analyst
9 64 (8.90%) Junior Security Analyst
10 63 (8.76%) Senior
11 60 (8.34%) Ethical Hacker
12 45 (6.26%) IT Engineer
13 43 (5.98%) Support Engineer
14 38 (5.29%) Azure Engineer
15 33 (4.59%) Lead
16 32 (4.45%) IT Support Engineer
16 32 (4.45%) Network Engineer
17 31 (4.31%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (14.05%) .NET
2 91 (12.66%) .NET Core
3 74 (10.29%) CSS
4 71 (9.87%) ASP.NET
5 70 (9.74%) ASP.NET Core
6 65 (9.04%) HTML
7 39 (5.42%) RESTful
8 35 (4.87%) React
9 30 (4.17%) Entity Framework
9 30 (4.17%) ML.NET
10 29 (4.03%) Node.js
11 25 (3.48%) Blazor
12 22 (3.06%) HTML5 Canvas
12 22 (3.06%) JSON
13 20 (2.78%) AngularJS
14 19 (2.64%) Microsoft Graph
14 19 (2.64%) SPFx
15 18 (2.50%) Vue
16 17 (2.36%) ASP.NET Web API
17 15 (2.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 60 (8.34%) Cyberattack
2 34 (4.73%) Cloud Native
3 26 (3.62%) Driving Licence
4 18 (2.50%) Onboarding
5 16 (2.23%) Management Information System
5 16 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (1.81%) Security Posture
7 10 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.11%) iPhone
8 8 (1.11%) Product Ownership
9 7 (0.97%) Clustering
9 7 (0.97%) Digital TV
9 7 (0.97%) Robotics
10 6 (0.83%) Cloud Security Posture
10 6 (0.83%) Cyber Threat
10 6 (0.83%) Data Structures
10 6 (0.83%) Low-Code
10 6 (0.83%) PKI
10 6 (0.83%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 128 (17.80%) Windows
2 81 (11.27%) Windows Server
3 18 (2.50%) Android
3 18 (2.50%) Windows Server 2019
4 16 (2.23%) Linux
5 11 (1.53%) Apple iOS
5 11 (1.53%) Mac OS
6 10 (1.39%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (0.70%) VMS
8 4 (0.56%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (29.49%) Cybersecurity
2 184 (25.59%) AI
3 125 (17.39%) Mentoring
4 119 (16.55%) Business Intelligence
5 118 (16.41%) Agile
6 97 (13.49%) DevOps
7 78 (10.85%) Problem-Solving
8 75 (10.43%) Full-Stack Development
9 73 (10.15%) CI/CD
10 65 (9.04%) Continuous Improvement
11 61 (8.48%) Machine Learning
12 60 (8.34%) Ethical Hacking
13 39 (5.42%) Computer Science
13 39 (5.42%) Roadmaps
14 35 (4.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 35 (4.87%) Project Management
14 35 (4.87%) User Experience
15 33 (4.59%) Technical Leadership
16 32 (4.45%) Customer Service
16 32 (4.45%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 230 (31.99%) SQL
2 135 (18.78%) C#
2 135 (18.78%) Python
3 65 (9.04%) JavaScript
4 54 (7.51%) PowerShell
5 40 (5.56%) TypeScript
6 25 (3.48%) PHP
7 15 (2.09%) Java
8 11 (1.53%) C++
9 8 (1.11%) T-SQL
10 6 (0.83%) R
11 3 (0.42%) Bash
11 3 (0.42%) Bicep
11 3 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.42%) Ruby
12 2 (0.28%) Scala
13 1 (0.14%) Rust
13 1 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 262 (36.44%) Azure Certification
2 71 (9.87%) CompTIA Security+
3 69 (9.60%) Degree
4 65 (9.04%) CompTIA CySA+
5 60 (8.34%) CEH
6 41 (5.70%) Cisco Certification
7 36 (5.01%) Microsoft Certification
8 35 (4.87%) CCNA
8 35 (4.87%) Security Cleared
9 28 (3.89%) Network+ Certification
10 27 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
11 21 (2.92%) SC Cleared
12 9 (1.25%) DV Cleared
13 8 (1.11%) AWS Certification
13 8 (1.11%) CCNP
14 7 (0.97%) CISSP
15 6 (0.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 6 (0.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 6 (0.83%) DBS Check
16 4 (0.56%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (2.92%) QA
1 21 (2.92%) SLA
2 20 (2.78%) GDPR
3 16 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (1.81%) Data Quality
4 13 (1.81%) NIST
5 11 (1.53%) GRC
6 8 (1.11%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.11%) NCSC
7 7 (0.97%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 6 (0.83%) JSP 440
9 5 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 4 (0.56%) NIST 800
10 4 (0.56%) PMO
11 2 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.28%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.14%) IFRS
12 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 122 (16.97%) Active Directory
2 33 (4.59%) Hyper-V
3 28 (3.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (2.92%) Docker
5 16 (2.23%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.83%) vSphere
8 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 4 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.14%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 49 (6.82%) Microsoft Intune
2 31 (4.31%) Kubernetes
3 21 (2.92%) Terraform
4 9 (1.25%) Ansible
5 4 (0.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (0.56%) SolarWinds Orion
5 4 (0.56%) vCenter Server
6 3 (0.42%) Proxmox
6 3 (0.42%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.14%) Nessus
7 1 (0.14%) SCCM
7 1 (0.14%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 519 (72.18%) Microsoft
2 148 (20.58%) ForeScout
3 48 (6.68%) Cisco
4 33 (4.59%) VMware
5 26 (3.62%) Apple
6 19 (2.64%) Adobe
7 17 (2.36%) Databricks
7 17 (2.36%) Google
8 13 (1.81%) Meraki
8 13 (1.81%) ServiceNow
9 11 (1.53%) SolarWinds
10 10 (1.39%) Veeam
11 9 (1.25%) Epicor
12 8 (1.11%) Facebook
12 8 (1.11%) SAP
13 7 (0.97%) Fortinet
14 6 (0.83%) Aruba
14 6 (0.83%) Cloudera
14 6 (0.83%) Dell
15 5 (0.70%) Salesforce